Paper receptacle.



G. D. SMITH.

PAPER REGEPTACLE.

APPLIOATIQN FILED 00T. 24, 191s.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

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G. D. SMITH.

PAPER BEGBPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 24, 1913.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

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GEORGE D. SMITH, OF PATER-SON, NEW JERSEY.

FABER RECEPTACLE.

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To all `wlw/mf t may cof/wcm Be it known that I, GEORGE D. SMrrr-r, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Recep-` tacles, of which the following is aspeciica# tion. Y l

This invention relates to the manufacture of paper receptacles and the like andithas for its object to provide, at a minimum cost, a paper receptacle. that @may be vended in the yfolded state and readily opened by the user into condition to receive Vits contents, the same being self-adapted` to retain its re ceptacle forming shapewhen once expanded thereinto.

According' to this invention I fold a col lapsed paper sack having two opposite equal-width fiat or plain sides and two opposite equal-width infolded bellows sides at least twice across the same, the folds being spaced apart a distance equaling the width of each folded bellows side, thus forming in each layer of each bellows side between said folds a square. Upon holding the sack below and adjoining the relatively lower fold and expanding the part thereof above such fold until each bellows side is extended to its limit with respect to the part thereof above the upper fold each of the two square shaped layers forming the part thereof below such fold and above the relatively lower fold may be folded on a diagonal extending from the upper outer to the lower inner corner of the square, thus producing a receptacle whose sides are rectangularly disposed and whose bottom (including in part portions of the plain sides of the sack which are between said folds and in part the folded squares) is substantially flat.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings by views showing the paper receptacle in various stages from the beginning to the completion of its formation, Figure 1 being' a plan view of a col lapsed paper sack of a well-known type; Fig. 2 a perspective view of the sack after the first fold having reference to the preferred manner of forming the receptacle-has been formed; Fig. 3 shows the sack after the second fold has been formed; Fig. t shows the sacl after the third fold has been formed and in the condition in which it will usually be vended; Fig. 5 shows the sack during the operation of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. la, 1914.

Application filed October 24, 1913. Serial No. 797,047.

shaping its upper part to form the receptacle; and, Fig. 6 is a plan view and Fig. 7

a perspective view ofthe completed recep-` 'tacle.

Having sack (Fig. l) of paper or other suitably stiff flexible material and provided with two equal-width and rectangular opposite fiat or plain sides a and b' and two equal-width opposite" infolded rectangular bellows sides c and cl, I Vfold the same at right angles to the longitudinal margins of its sides a and Z) on first the line .e'disposed (for a purpose which will appear)` a distance from'the bottom A of the sack that is equal to twice the `width of each'folded bellows side (Fig. 2). The sackis then folded on a line f which is parallel with line e and spaced therefrom a distance equal Vvto the width of each folded bellows side, this fold being then straightened out, leaving simply a crease. The sack is then folded on the line g, parallel with lines e and f and olistanced from line the width of the folded bellows sides, the fold in this ease being preferably the reverse of the fold e. Fig. 3 shows the sack after folds f and g, respectively, have been formed therein, the packet shown in Fig. 4 being the form in which my improved article of manufacture will usually be vended.

In view of the foregoing it will be seen that each of the two bellows sides will have two squares (one in each of its two layers) formed by its outer and inner margins and the folds f and g.

To form the receptacle the user places the i of the saclr with his other hand to a. limit afforded by the full extension of each lbellows side. In the accomplishment of this the upper inner corner h of each of the foregoing squares will be brought into coincidence (or substantially so) with its lower outer corner e', the square folding on its diagonal j; upon creasing down each fold'thus produced the receptacle produced, which is substantially perfectly rectangular and has its bottom composed in part of the portions of the sides a and o of the sack that are between the folds f and g and in part of the folded squares, will be self-adapted to maintain its shape.

When the receptacle has been used and is to be destroyed with its contents the latter are first allowed to fall into the reserve space which exists in the sack below the part that forms the receptacle as soon as the sack is extended or opened to its full capacity, thus eliminating the folds e and f, whereupon the upper part of the sack may be folded upon itself one or more times or if desired sealed in some way.

`My improved article of manufacture may 'beused for various purposes, although it has been specially designed for sanitary uses.

-It will be apparent that by spacing the folds e, f and g in the way hereindescribed I accomplish both the forming of the squares and the folding of the sack into a convenient shape for vending (F ig. 4).

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As an article of manufacture, a sack formed of suitably stiif flexible material having two opposite equal-width plain rectangular sides and two opposite equal-width Copies of this patent may be obtained for fwe cents each, by addressing' the Commissioner of Patents,

infolded rectangular bellows sides, said sack being folded in the collapsed state twice transversely thereof on lines at right angles to the longitudinal margins of the plain sides and spaced apart a distance equaling the width of each folded bellows side, whereby to produce between said folds a square in each layer o-f each folded bellows side and, upon holding the material of the sack relatively below and adj oining the relatively lower fold and expanding the part of the sack thereabove sufficiently to substantially extend each bellows side to its limit, to permit the two squares in each bellows side to be folded on diagonals thereof extending from their relatively upper outer to their lower inner corners and thus produce and maintain a receptacle in the upper portion of the sack.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. SMITH. Witnesses v ALBIN SMITH, 'JOHN W. STEWARD.

Washington, D. C. 

